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One real tracked animal · Birds

Bar-headed goose

Anser indicus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

Flies over the Himalaya, the highest migration on Earth.

13,207 kmdistance
1,572days tracked
464fixes
29°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 4 years and 4 months, from July 1998 to November 2002, across 464 recorded positions.

It ranged between 32°N and 42°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -19°C to 10°C.

It averaged 8.4 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

Its last fix was 1,057 km from its first, so the track we have is a one-way journey rather than a closed loop.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 65% of them.